Recovery Film Festival June 26th @ SVA in Manhattan! (Catered by Katz's, afterparty at The Maze)
The Dopey Podcast with Dave Manheim is proud to present the first annual Dopey Film Festival! Hosted at7pm at the SVA theatre, it will be catered by Katz's Deli with an afterparty at The Maze sober bar.
The Dopey Short Film Festival is a celebration of raw storytelling, dark humor, recovery, redemption, and the messy humanity that lives inside addiction and recovery. The festival showcases short films, documentaries, animations, music videos, and experimental work that explore drugs, alcoholism, trauma, mental health, relapse, absurdity, connection, and survival.
The festival welcomes filmmakers, addicts, alcoholics, artists, outsiders, and first-time creators with real stories to tell. Along with screenings, the event will feature filmmaker Q&As, comedy, music, live conversations, and community connection. The goal is simple: bring people together through film, laughter, honesty, and art, proving that recovery stories don’t have to be boring. At its core, the Dopey Short Film Festival celebrates creativity born from chaos, because sometimes the darkest stories make the best art.